Halloween Facts

– Halloween is celebrated on 31 October.

– Halloween is a very old celebration, dating back over 2000 years.

– Halloween is also know as:

• All Hallows Eve
• Samhain
• All Hallowtide
• The Feast of the Dead
• The Day of the Dead

– Halloween is correctly spelt as Hallowe’en.

– The colours orange and black became Halloween are associated with the end of harvest and death.

– More than 95% of the pupkins sold on Halloween are used as Jack O’.

– Ringing a bell scares evil spirits away